Various libertarians and Gen Z students have made use of the confused state of the Croatia-Serbia river border to proclaim independent mini-states – although police and governments insist they have no ...

The mass incursion into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta showed would-be EU members how the European bloc responds to a genuine shock to its self-proclaimed values of ‘solidarity’. The weeks that bridge ...

In March 1999, as Serbian forces expelled Kosovo Albanian families from their homes, Sali Morina and his wife had to carry three of their children, all suffering from muscular dystrophy, by hand to ...

A man died of his injuries in Bulgaria's second city, Plovdiv, after police said his attackers enticed him to a fake meeting with a teenage girl via a dating app, with the intention of livestreaming ...

Using wartime photographs provided by veteran photographers Zeljko Gasparovic and Stanko Feric, BIRN returned to the exact locations where they were taken to document how these places have changed ...

The candidate state’s next election will be a de facto referendum on EU membership, so Europe must make sure this vital vote is free of malign interference. On June 3, an Air Serbia charter from ...

Opposition condemns lack of transparency after Foreign Minister reveals government is working behind closed doors to solve dispute with Bulgaria and unblock EU talks. North Macedonia’s Foreign ...

Many factors contributed to the Hungarian government’s election defeat, including social media campaigns which misfired as public trust eroded. Yet Russian-style disinformation remains a persistent ...

Donald Trump’s second term has coincided with a significant increase in lobbying efforts by Bosnia’s Republika Srpska entity, resulting, it seems, in the lifting of US sanctions on Milorad Dodik and ...

Fire service pays tribute to two firefighters who died battling a forest blaze on Crete, saying they 'fell heroically in the line of duty'. Α building burns during a wildfire in Oreokastro, near ...

Red Star Belgrade and the Serbian Progressive Party have successive victories in common – and both benefit from a system that consistently reinforces the power of whoever is at the top. Ludogorets ...

Amid an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, a massive cull of sheep and goats on Lesvos threatens livelihoods - and a way of life. For generations, dusk fell on the hillside village of Mesotopos, ...